Thank you.

Y'know, I've already gotten so many emails from cool people this weekend, thanking me for doing what I do in Central Park. But, seriously, I hafta say... it goes both ways.

I'm sure you know that.

On what could otherwise be a sad, or at the very least a kind of odd couple of days, you all made this weekend a very moving and at times a very kickin' experience. Were you out there on Saturday or Sunday? If you were, you know what I'm talking about.

Damn! It felt good to be in this town!

I say it all the time, but I am the luckiest man alive. I'm a singer/songwriter... it's what I do. And, I get to write songs and sing them for the people in the greatest city on the planet every week.

Very cool.

And now, with technology being what it is, people have been sending me photos this summer from our weekends together in Central Park and Riverside Park and Hudson River Park.

Like this one, of couple who started dancing in Central Park on Saturday.

Dancing in the Park

Or, this one of that beautiful young lady who got up to sing with me this weekend. (Sent in by a good guy on "The Hill" named Sean.)

A girl named Sonya jams on "Brown Eyed Girl"

Thanks again.

Y'know, if you're new here... why don't you take a minute to register in the "Forum" (message board) over there and say "hi". It's free, y'know. You can talk about whatever you like in there. Meet each other. In the past, it's been kinda cool. Slowed down a bit recently. But, there are an awful lotta new people visiting the site these days.

Also, I wanna let you all know I'll be adding the email addresses from this weekend to the BIG email list today or tomorrow. So, about once a week, I'll let you guys know what's goin' on, okay?

One thing that's happening... TOMORROW NIGHT! New Yorkers will come together at 6:30 pm on Tuesday, September 13 2005, at Pier 63 to show their empathy for victims of Hurricane Katrina in Alabama, Louisiana, Mississippi and beyond. I was asked to be a part of it. Check back here and I will let you know tomorrow about what time I will be playing as a part of that effort, okay?

Okay... AND!

This weekend I actually approached some of you on "The Hill" personally to ask if you want to help out with the VOICES TOGETHER Concert in January. Please email me and let me know if you really do want to help out with producing this gig. I will meet you for coffee, and sit down, and listen to what you think you can bring to the party. Right now, we need to raise about another 10 to 15 thousand dollars. It's so cool... already, the "People on the Hill"... you guys... have raised over $10,000. Maybe we'll find that one or two angels among us who can afford to give $1,000 or $5,000 or more. IT'S ALL TAX-DEDUCTIBLE so that oughta help!

If you don't know what I'm talking about... this concert is part of a sincere effort to get as much help as we possibly can directly to the innocent civilian families, especially the children, who are living through the war in Iraq.Voices Together website as a concert "producer". Because that's exactly what you are!

This is gonna be a very special night, sometime in January here in New York City. And, like I said, you are welcome to be a real part of it. Help us produce this concert so that we can help some very special people who are doing some very remarkable work in that part of the world, okay?

And, it'll feel good to help. And... it'll actually be fun.

Y'know what!? Click on this logo and visit the new website...

...and, find out how you can be a real part of the VOICES TOGETHER concert. Really make a difference for the better in this world, when ordinary people here reach out to help the ordinary people of Iraq. Please help make a very real and direct difference. Don't you think it would be so much harder to hate someone if they were bandaging your child's head? Don't you think we'd create one less enemy if we flew somone's wife or brother to the United States to get medical treatment for that leg that was blown off, or those eyes that were so badly burned? It is just the right thing... no... the Good thing to do. There are children being hurt and horribly injured every day in Iraq with nearly no one to help them. Ordinary people... civilians, every day, whose lives are being torn apart by this war.

They need help... period.

We need to raise $50,000 in the next week or so.

Can you help?

Hope so.

Anyway... okay listen. Maybe I'll stop in and see you in the "Forum" later. I might even update this homepage again a little later.

If you see me out in the streets of Manahattan today... say "Hey".

And, check back here everyday. Pass this link onto a friend or two, okay?

From the bottom of my heart...

..thanks again.

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